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Ofosu&Posner (2021): Pre-analysis plan: an early stocktaking

This replication folder contains the following files: 

A. Data

1. "master_pap_data08202019.csv" is the dataset used to generate the main results in the paper. It contains the variables that describe the pre-analysis in study 

2. "aer_registry012020.csv": registry used to generate evolution of PAP registration from the American Economic Association

3. "egap_registry012020.csv": registry used to generate evolution of PAP registration from the Evidence in Governance and Politics

4. "Preanalysis_plans_survey_April162019.csv": dataset from PAP users survey


B. Code

5. "00_op_summary_registered_paps.R": generate evolution of PAP from the AER and EGAP registries (Figure 1)

6. "ofosuposner_replicationfiles_codebook.Rmd": an .Rmd file that generates the codebook describing the variables in "master_pap_data08202019.csv." 

7. "02-op_paps_data_description_summary.rmd": an Rmd file that generate the statistics of the data "master_pap_data08202019.csv" reported in the paper. It documents the codes used to generate the estimates, tables, and figures in the paper) 


C. Documents
8. "ofosuposner_replicationfiles_codebook.pdf": codebook generated by the file "ofosuposner_replicationfiles_codebook.Rmd"

9. "pi_survey_report.pdf": results from PAP users' survey generated from Qualtrics.
